Some random thoughts on beauty
Music: [Hotel Rwanda] - Million Voices
Book: Tom Stoppard - The Real Inspector Hound
In addition to "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", we as humans very often only see value in other things (humans or otherwise) insofar as we yearn to hold that value ourselves. We borrow that more or less familiar God example: The God we picture him in our minds is a mere reflection of what we would like to see ourselves to be. Similarly, the beauty we see in say, a sleek soccer player or a sleek Sean Connery exists only to the extent we would like to see ourselves be like them.
There is another form of beauty that is much more confusing however. Is the beauty of a persuasive argument or the beauty of Stoppard's ingenuity in constructing The Real Inspector Hound, or even the beauty in seeing those fantastic 3D images now commonly found in the cinemas and in computer games really beauty? I dont think so. I personally find that beauty is used as a blanket term in such cases, a blanket term to express our appreciation in less than a full critical analysis. (The beauty of a persuasive argument lies in the fact that it managed to convince us, especially when we were set out to be convinced otherwise; the beauty of works like The Real Inspector Hound ostensibly lies in the fact that we respect the creator's ability to concoct such a structure that embodies intellectuality amongst other things [and this could be in turn be derived from the fact that we did not manage to think of what he thought of]; the beauty of graphics is present only because we have a subconsciousness that realises that the thing you see on the screen is so much like reality--without all the creases, metaphorical or otherwise--we are therefore not appreciating the beauty of the image per se but rather, the fact that the creator managed to create "reality")
From the above I would henceforth venture to say 1) beauty is just a crude representative word of numerous other cumbersome appraisals/concepts and 2) it is derived from what we have not thought of/what we have not done (and possibly, will not ever be able to do). The feeling of beauty we feel is therefore more a latent reaction of respect for accomplishing what we have not accomplished than it is a proactive feeling for the object at hand.
Book: Tom Stoppard - The Real Inspector Hound
In addition to "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", we as humans very often only see value in other things (humans or otherwise) insofar as we yearn to hold that value ourselves. We borrow that more or less familiar God example: The God we picture him in our minds is a mere reflection of what we would like to see ourselves to be. Similarly, the beauty we see in say, a sleek soccer player or a sleek Sean Connery exists only to the extent we would like to see ourselves be like them.
There is another form of beauty that is much more confusing however. Is the beauty of a persuasive argument or the beauty of Stoppard's ingenuity in constructing The Real Inspector Hound, or even the beauty in seeing those fantastic 3D images now commonly found in the cinemas and in computer games really beauty? I dont think so. I personally find that beauty is used as a blanket term in such cases, a blanket term to express our appreciation in less than a full critical analysis. (The beauty of a persuasive argument lies in the fact that it managed to convince us, especially when we were set out to be convinced otherwise; the beauty of works like The Real Inspector Hound ostensibly lies in the fact that we respect the creator's ability to concoct such a structure that embodies intellectuality amongst other things [and this could be in turn be derived from the fact that we did not manage to think of what he thought of]; the beauty of graphics is present only because we have a subconsciousness that realises that the thing you see on the screen is so much like reality--without all the creases, metaphorical or otherwise--we are therefore not appreciating the beauty of the image per se but rather, the fact that the creator managed to create "reality")
From the above I would henceforth venture to say 1) beauty is just a crude representative word of numerous other cumbersome appraisals/concepts and 2) it is derived from what we have not thought of/what we have not done (and possibly, will not ever be able to do). The feeling of beauty we feel is therefore more a latent reaction of respect for accomplishing what we have not accomplished than it is a proactive feeling for the object at hand.
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